First published by the Middle East Eye on 18/8/2018 Dual approach involves starving UNRWA of funding and trying to strip Palestinians of their refugee status There are indications that a truce between Hamas and Israel is close to being concluded, bypassing the Palestinian Authority. The main commercial access point to Gaza, Kerem Shalom crossing, has …
Continue reading How the US is sidelining Palestinian refugees
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 10/8/2018 UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn [REUTERS/Peter Nicholls] Britain’s two major political parties have been gripped by accusations that they have a problem with racism. In the case of the Labour Party, this allegedly takes the form of anti-Semitism, while in the Conservative Party, it is …
Continue reading If free speech is to mean anything at all, its principles must be applied equally
I joined a debate on RT UK on this letter in the Guardian which I signed on 1/8/2018 https://youtu.be/62mTTKawsAI
This letter was published in the Guardian on 31 July 2018 Leading figures, including Prof Karma Nabulsi, Prof Kamel Hawwash, and Dr Ghada Karmi, put their community’s point of view The fundamental right to free expression, guaranteed by article 10 of the Human Rights Act, is first and foremost the right to “receive and impart …
Continue reading Palestinians in the UK speak out for the right to freedom of speech
I was interviewed by Press TV on 29/7/2018 https://youtu.be/gZbrvXHO5SI
First published by the Middle East Eye on 26/7/2018 Trump’s team is focusing on how to force the Palestinians in Gaza - and Hamas - to submit and accept their dictates or face further misery The heat is on - again - in Gaza, as Israel tightens its siege and continues to kill and maim …
Continue reading How the US and Israel are working to transform Gaza into the Palestinian state
I was interviewed by Press Tv's On the News Line in 26/7/2018 https://youtu.be/e5WXV8vGoVU
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 23/7/2018 View of a Palestinian refugee camp behind Israel's apartheid wall in east Jerusalem on 3 December 2014 [Muammar Awad/Apaimages] Remember the date, 19 July 2018 is when Israel’s pretense of democracy, the Knesset passed the Nation State Bill, which could more aptly be called, the “Jewish State …
First published by the Arab Weekly on 22/7/2018 Israel meets even peaceful Palestinian resistance with brutal force. Resilient despite pressures. Demonstrators try to prevent an Isreali tractor from passing through the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank, on July 4. (AFP) International law states that a people under occupation are …
Continue reading Peaceful resistance is the Palestinian answer to Trump’s ‘deal of the century’
I was interviewed by RT UK on 20/7/2018 https://youtu.be/KLJmfAtU2RQ
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